Identifier: spraguesjournalo12spra (find matches)
Title: Sprague's journal of Maine history
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sprague, John Francis
Subjects: Local history -- Maine Maine -- History Periodicals
Publisher: (S.l.) : John Francis Sprague
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Revolution; that is,upwards of eight years, enjoying the confidence of General Washington andattaining the rank of captain. He was a sturdy patriot, a brave soldier, giftedbeyond many of his contemporaries in strong and heroic character. Our Captain Wade remembered his Grandsire Abner as an old man of markedpersonality, a born leader, of positive convictions and imswerving integrity.The boy Abner never tired hstening to his grandsires tales of the war and wasdoubtless deeply influenced by his lofty ideals. The Captain Wade of the Revolutionary war came to this State after the war,settUng in Woolwich near the mouth of the Kennebec River. He married inWoolwich a bride from Kingston, Massachusetts. Three years later he acquired by purchase a large tract of land, with outlyingislands, in a beautiful and fertile part of Woolwich called Phipps Neck. Therein 1789, his son Turner was born, the father of Abner, and there also in the Wool-wich home was born Abner Turner, November first, 1817. I
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CAPTAIN ABNER TURNER WADE CAPTAIN ABNKR TURNER WADE 149 In the history of Mt. Kineo Lodge, F. and A. Masons,*of which Captain Wadewas the author, he says of himself,—I was born in the good old Puritan towTi ofWoolwich, where many a better man was born before and since. That is astatement of characteristic modesty; but we may say that if better men have beenborn in Woolwich they have failed of recognition. For Captain Wade not onlyimbibed the manly and heroic spirit of his military grandfather, but was blest witha godly parentage and a faithful and wise Christian training. His father, TurnerWade, though he died a (comparatively young man, had become a deacon in theBaptist church. His mother, Hannah Carleton Farnham, of Woolwich parentage,was a devout, exemplary Christian all her days. This heredity and early training had profound and permanent influence onthe character of Abner Tiu-ner. He was ever reverent and hospitable towardChristian ideals. He had great respect for true Christia

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